title: Heart health: rehabilitation.
abstract: Cardiac rehabilitation is the sum of activities necessary to enable patients with heart disease to achieve their optimal physical, mental, social and economic state, so that they may, by their own efforts, regain as normal as possible a place in the community and lead an active and productive life (World Health Organization 1993). It is a multidisciplinary, multifaceted approach with an overall aim of improving the short-term recovery of patients and encouraging long-term lifestyle changes in relation to adverse risk factors (Horgan et al 1992). This clearly indicates the holistic nature of the rehabilitation process, where all aspects of a person's life need to be considered, and where emphasis is on the contribution of the individual towards his or her own recovery.
mesh_terms: D000359:Aftercare; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D018939:Holistic Nursing; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D010351:Patient Discharge; D019145:Rehabilitation Nursing; D012307:Risk Factors